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Clients look to our litigators for their most complex and challenging tax cases. Some of our key work highlights include representing:

  • China Ocean Engineering Construction Company (COECG) in successfully obtaining a stay order from the Sindh High Court in a dispute regarding the imposition and recovery of sales tax on services from the running bills of the contractor in relation to K-2 and K-3 Nuclear Power Project
  • Porsche in successfully challenging the levy and imposition of regulatory duty on the import of cars before the Lahore High Court
  • Motorway Operation and Rehabilitation Engineering (Pvt) Limited for wrongful imposition of income tax due to misinterpretation of law in PKR 3.1 billion matter
  • China Gezhouba Group Company in relation to tax implications arising out of a Letter of Discount issued with respect to (1) Contract for building and engineering Works for the Dam and Hydraulic Steel Structure (“MW 01”) and (2) Contract for building and engineering works for the Underground Power Complex, Tunnels and Hydraulic Steel Structures (“MW 02”) at the Dasu Hydropower Project (“Project”). For MW 01 and MW 02
  • Federal Board of Revenue against BP Pakistan Exploration & Production and M/s Occidental Oil & Gas Pakistan LLC in the Islamabad High Court (Isl HC – Sami and Waqas)
  • Quaid-e-Azam Thermal Power Limited, owner and operator of 1180 MW RLNG based Power Plant at Bhikki, Sheikhupura, in successfully challenging the illegal recovery of PKR 1 Billion by the Federal Board of Revenue
  • Punjab Thermal Power Plant in challenging the tax assessment made under the Punjab Sales Tax on Services Act 2012 on the receipt of taxable services
  • All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) in challenging various surcharges and duties in relation to electricity and gas before the provincial High Court
  • McDonald’s in the imposition of advertisement involving the payment of advertisement tax and fee to the National Highway Authority
  • Hair Association in challenging the levy and imposition of sales tax on services by the Punjab Revenue Authority
  • Khyber Tobacco in the Peshawar High Court against the levy of excise duty on the production of cigarette

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